Friday News Roundup - Domestic

July 26, 2013

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President Barack Obama takes his new economic message on the road. The U.S. Senate passes a student loan bill. And New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner faces another sexting scandal. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week's top national news stories.

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Will Anthony Weiner's latest sexting scandal hurt his New York City mayoral run, while helping Eliot Spitzer in the citywide comptroller's race? Jeff Mason of Reuters says Weiner and his wife made a choice to let the scandal be a news story. NPR's Ron Elving invoked a joke from "The Colbert Report" about why Spitzer didn't employ more "self-comptrol."

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